Awesome pics! I particularly love the fourth one. We had some astonishingly large groups of mushrooms on our meadow last autumn, and later realised that they grew on places which had been used as cat loos... *g* Unfortunately I didn't manage to take a picture before they were destroyed in a hailstrom.
The fruiting bodies of most fungi seem so solid but their part in the life cycle is often fleeting, with weather releasing their spores or animals eating and spreading them further.
I was caught out in a vicious hailstorm last month, with stone the size of frozen peas. OUCH. Thrilling though, especially the drumming sound of its leading edge approaching.
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We had some astonishingly large groups of mushrooms on our meadow last autumn, and later realised that they grew on places which had been used as cat loos... *g* Unfortunately I didn't manage to take a picture before they were destroyed in a hailstrom.
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The fruiting bodies of most fungi seem so solid but their part in the life cycle is often fleeting, with weather releasing their spores or animals eating and spreading them further.
I was caught out in a vicious hailstorm last month, with stone the size of frozen peas. OUCH. Thrilling though, especially the drumming sound of its leading edge approaching.